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The shy and retiring Liam Gallagher often seems to wake up on the wrong side of the bed in the morning, but his latest emergence from self-imposed isolation has resulted in a litany of sweary grumblings about everything from his expensive divorce lawyers and his brother Noel, to his son's fledgling modelling career and his concerns about being a "has-been".

Speaking to the Evening Standard Magazine, Gallagher revealed that he has spent the last few years marooned in his London penthouse drinking alcohol, watching the walls, ruining the "vibe" of publicist girlfriend Debbie Gwyther, and presumably swearing a lot.

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"[I was] drinking too much and doing nothing," he said. "Ruining Debbie's vibe, going, 'Come on, let's go to the pub. F--- work, come and be a f------ dosser like me!' And then she'd go to work and I'd be sitting at home being Billy No Mates."

"I'd open the door and get mithered to death straight away. People going, 'Oasis, Oasis, Oasis' in your face, and it's like you're in a bad trip. You're this guy in Oasis, but you're not doing anything any more. You start going, 'Am I a f------ has-been? Is this it?' And you're sitting there going, 'Well, maybe it is?'"

When it came to personal targets for his wrath, Gallagher had little pleasant to say about his lawyers -- with his expensive divorce from All Saints singer Nicole Appleton coinciding in 2014 with revelations about Gallagher secretly fathering a child with a New York journalist.

"I was waiting for the divorce to kick in, to see what f------ pennies they'd throw back at me, and I was out of here," he said. "I was gonna go and live in Spain and just chill out, get fit, eat nice, bit of sun on me bones and just f------ live.

"I know it was all my own doing and that. But I was just living in ghoul world with f------ lawyers. Every day. If it wasn't the divorce lawyer, it was the other lawyer. It was f------ grim. They just make it worse. They f------ strung it out, mate. They definitely know how long a piece of string is."

Also on Gallagher's hit list are the profits from the modelling career of Lennon, his 17-year-old son with actress Patsy Kensit.

"He's earning corn, man. Where's my cut?" he asked. "Them two eyebrows, they're mine, right? So I want a cut of this f------ wonga. And the f------ name ­Gallagher, I want a cut of that as well! He's like, 'What d'you mean?'

"I'm like, 'See how much f------ work you get if you change your name to Lennon Kensit. Zilch! So where's my cut?"

"I think he's had it easy off me," Gallagher said. "It's only sticks and stones, they won't break his bones. Wait till I bump into the c---. Everything I say is the f------ truth. I've not even dug that deep yet.

"I don't know what world he lives in, and I wouldn't want to live in it, believe you me, because it seems very bland, naff and contrived and just... 'What?' He's like the new Robbie Williams or something. It's f------ weird."

Gallagher recently tweeted that Albarn had turned his brother into "a massive girl". "Believe you me nxt time i see him there's gonna be war," he wrote in April.